{"product_id":"how-to-do-things-with-tears-9780811214643","title":"How to Do Things with Tears","description":"The award-winning poet's newest book of poems is heroic and of mythic proportions, showing the compassionate side of men. \u003ci\u003eHow to Do Things with Tears\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of poems brought forth by the Sighted Singer, the poet who holds the central place in Allen Grossman's newest poetic work. \"This is a \u003ci\u003ehow-to\u003c\/i\u003e book,\" Grossman explains. \"The heroic singer of tradition is blind. A \u003ci\u003enew\u003c\/i\u003e singer in this present must be sighted. In this book the poet intends to say something, insofar as a poet can, about the common sadness of living and dying in the world.\" Like the blind bard of old, Grossman's Sighted Singer conjures visions both high and low, in mythopoetic resonances that excite the sorrows and the laughter of the gods and men.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/17\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811214643\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 5.96w x 0.36d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/26\/2001 pg. 85\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2001 pg. 551\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Allen Grossman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52072345829557,"sku":"9780811214643","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_fe36cc91-506c-4d93-a48c-ce8d18427142.jpg?v=1764688629","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/how-to-do-things-with-tears-9780811214643","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}